I have an affliction that seems to prevent me from being able to create a web design I am happy with. I can easily point out what I consider a good design but creating is another story. A web site, pointed out by Mike Gunderloy over at the Web Worker Daily , simple called Open Source Web Designs is a...

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I have had a pretty good career so far, gone from college to running my own technology company for 10-years, selling it and taking on some interesting software development and lead roles for a few companies and fast-forwarding to now where I am an independent software developer. My current large client...

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Have you ever wondered how some of your Twitter friends have those cool cartoon versions of themselves? I was put onto one such service from one my Twitter friends. The source I found recently was from a web site called CartoonMe , and for $5.69 you can have one too. Here is a pic of my mug before becoming...

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I have been using the same Staples special office task chair for the last 8 years, yes 8 years. It has served me very well but the cloth was starting to wear out heavily on the seat and it was time to get something new. I considered many options as my analytical mind does and contemplated long and hard...

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I have been a .NET and Ruby editor for InfoQ since the end of the Summer of 2007, so about 7 months now and have been having a great time. I have learned a lot about the web publishing industry and about aspects of technology I may not have otherwise been exposed to. I am grateful to Floyd at InfoQ for...

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I have been running this blog for quite sometime now and would like to hire someone to make some design changes to it. My blog is currently hosted by Wordpress and I am not interested in changing this, I have built a good traffic base with the basic domain from Wordpress and also don't want to deal with...

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I found this yesterday and thought others might find it amusing. I think Scott has summed up the too often the approach to Agile. http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20071126.html Technorati Tags: Agile , Dilbert...

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I use SnagIt from Techsmith on a regular basis for creating screen shots for some of the posts I publish here as well as for some writing on do for InfoQ or even some training work I perform. I came across some free versions of both SnagIt and Camtasia Studio (screen casting tool). These tools are not...

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I have not posted to my blog in a while. I am sitting in a hospital room in Baltimore, MD running the night shift in my daughter’s room after her surgery. She has some issues with the growth of her bladder and the surgery is meant to help change that, but no guarantees. The 4 hour surgery was done...

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Well, it's 2006 and I am back to work after a much needed vacation. The holidays were great and I was able to decompress and catch up on family time and think about some of the things I want to accomplish in 2006. Blog more - I want to increase the frequency of my blog posts and improve the content....

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